Admiring the dystopian screwball romcom ‘Upload’ The future is always about the present, but the present can also be about the future. If it’s darkly funny enough. I recently finished three seasons of Upload, on Amazon Prime Video. Created, directed and lead-written by Greg Daniels, former The Simpsons writer and adapter of the US… Read More »A Well-Rounded Future
Mark Simpson goes over to the Dark Side at Comic-Con (Out magazine, September 2009 – uncut version) “I have seen things you people wouldn’t believe,” confides Batty, the beserker droid played by Rutger Hauer at the climax of the 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner. “Attack ships on fire off the shoulder… Read More »The Geeks Inherit The Earth
Mark Simpson on the metrosexual from outer space ‘It’s going to take a while for me to get used to this body.’ So says a shaking Keanu Reeves in The Day the Earth Stood Still, staring wide-eyed at his disobedient hands trying to hold a glass of water and convey… Read More »Earth to Keanu: You’re a Bit Late (But You Look Great!)